Rainmaker: The Saga of Jeff Beck, Wall Street's Mad Dog

by Anthony Bianco

Traces the rise and fall of Jeff Beck, the Wall Street legend and junk-bond dealmaker who used his connections with Drexel Burnham Lambert to make millions until his high-flying firm collapsed

Genres: Business

486 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 1991

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

There’s an old saying that, “Only half the lies an Irishman tells you are true.” Though not Irish, the exploits of “Mad Dog” Jeff Beck certainly embody this aphorism. This memoir of the life and times of Wall Street’s Mad Dog chronicles the excesses of the 1980s as it traces, from humble beginnings to apotheosis and self-destruction, the man in parallel with the institution with which he was most associated, Drexel Burnham Lambert. While much has been written about the demise of DBL, The Rainmaker is a highly entertaining addition to that corpus that illustrates just how fine the line between reality and illusion was during the ‘decade of greed’.